Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 74
The king saw that he was himself referred to, and said, "O Teacher! are you speaking of us?"
Who acts: king, you · What happens: see, refer, say, speak · To what, where: king, Teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 referred | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 referred | aux:pass |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 referred | nsubj |
| 8 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 referred | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Teacher | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Teacher | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 Teacher | discourse |
| 16 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 speaking | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 speaking | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 speaking | nsubj |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 speaking | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 speaking | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | refer | past · passive | king | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the king not said here | Teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | you | of us | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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